http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Canadian-internet-is-going-to-shit-20259083 en Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:57:46 EDT Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:57:46 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Canadian-internet-is-going-to-shit-20314966 said by nebular:

because you live in death valley california, whereas I live on the trent severn waterway in ontario and enjoy a flat fee for my water
I want to live closer to the Internet
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Basically, ISP prices should go up at the rate of inflation, and their capacities and speeds should keep pace with the current technology. That would be fair.
Wrong... If prices go up, they should follow the rate that my salary go up ..... Which is 0%! Every business thinks that prices can keep going up, but if salaries don't follow, then soon, no-one will be able to afford anything. The answer by businesses... Put the prices up again and again.

Who the hell runs these businesses? MBA's? No wonder North America is becoming a third world continent!]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Canadian-internet-is-going-to-shit-20270899 Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:02:47 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Canadian-internet-is-going-to-shit-20270671 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Canadian-internet-is-going-to-shit-20270671 Wed, 02 Apr 2008 14:19:04 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Canadian-internet-is-going-to-shit-20262207 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Canadian-internet-is-going-to-shit-20262207 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:03:14 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Canadian-internet-is-going-to-shit-20262153 said by hurfy:

$18.50 connect fee
$2.11 enviromental impact fee
$1.44 rate equalization
$.37 paperwork for above fees
$1.12 utility tax
$1.66 sales tax (vat)
plus $1 per GB**Hmmmmmm. kind of looks like the average cell phone bill!
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Now, you can consider your internet connection the same when you install your cable/fiber from your residence to the cable company and you are responsible for fixing any issues that come up with it. Of course you still need to pay the cable company a fee to use their network and send data out on to the Internet but that will be a much lower cost if you take on the costs/headache of managing the connection from the cable company to your home.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Canadian-internet-is-going-to-shit-20261579 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 05:59:20 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Canadian-internet-is-going-to-shit-20260936 said by telcolackey:

Why isn't my water bill flat fee?
Mine is... it's "free". All I pay is a real utility company - an electric coop no less - for the power to pull it out of ground and push it into my house.

And my electric utility company actually charges me less per kW when I use more power. Unlike these cap and surcharge ISPs who want to penalize people for actually using their product fully.

}Davoice]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Canadian-internet-is-going-to-shit-20260936 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:28:11 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Canadian-internet-is-going-to-shit-20260479 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Canadian-internet-is-going-to-shit-20260479 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 21:03:33 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Canadian-internet-is-going-to-shit-20260327
Off the top of my head:

$40 water bill is for like $4.88 worth of water used and $3 worth of sewer, etc tied to it. The rest is fixed monthly costs even for zero usage. I bet yours is not too much different.

You want internet like your water bill:
$18.50 connect fee
$2.11 enviromental impact fee
$1.44 rate equalization
$.37 paperwork for above fees
$1.12 utility tax
$1.66 sales tax (vat)
plus $1 per GB**

**plus tax (still only half the lines as our water bill but...)]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Canadian-internet-is-going-to-shit-20260327 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:34:27 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Canadian-internet-is-going-to-shit-20260321 said by Raptor:

It is in rural Ontario (in some places anyway).It is in a lot of places, actually. In Montreal it is part of your property taxes from what I understand.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Canadian-internet-is-going-to-shit-20260321 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:32:54 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Canadian-internet-is-going-to-shit-20260293
Basically, ISP prices should go up at the rate of inflation, and their capacities and speeds should keep pace with the current technology. That would be fair.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Canadian-internet-is-going-to-shit-20260293 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:26:10 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Canadian-internet-is-going-to-shit-20259835 said by telcolackey:

Why isn't my water bill flat fee?
Water and internet access are two totally different things.
One is a finite natural resource costing varying amounts of money to pump through an infrastructure. The other is data and electricity which costs minimally more no matter if 1 GB is sent or 200 GB. The power is always on and the actual costs do not match in such a way to compare to moving water.
Geesh, get a society hooked on something and then rake the through the coals! Just hilarious!]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Canadian-internet-is-going-to-shit-20259835 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:56:11 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Canadian-internet-is-going-to-shit-20259702 said by jessegr:

Not really. Fios and Cablevision and cox are way ahead of us. Comcast is about even tho.FIOS sure, but the amount of money they're spending will come to bite them - and their customers - in the ass in a few years. Cablevision isn't any much better than what we have North of the border, as we've already got cable ISPs here with 30 and 50Mbit/s tiers, just like Cablevision.
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